Research continues as the data collection process has been completed, interviews have been transcribed, and data analysis has begun. Mary presented a paper that outlines the fundamentals of this research at the ISSS 2010 Conference in Waterloo, CA at Wilfrid Laurier University last week. The paper, Group Development: A Complex Adaptive Systems Perspective, has been published in the Proceedings of the 54th Annual Conference, The International Society for the Systems Sciences - Governance for a Resilient Planet, and it is available at http://journals.isss.org/index.php/proceedings54th/article/viewFile/1435/490, ISBN 978-1-906740-04-7. Please check back for updates about the research that tests the postulate proposed by this paper.

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Mary Edson, Ph.D., SPHR, is an organizational systems coach and consultant who works with project teams to overcome adversity by building adaptive capacity. She conducted her doctoral research at Saybrook University in San Francisco, CA. Her research paper reviewing the results of this study received the Sir Geoffrey Vickers Award at the 55th Annual Meeting of the International Society for the Systems Sciences at the University of Hull, U.K.